The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) is running a limited-run newsletter based on archived content to find long-term readers and subscribers.A new series called the "7 financial crises that rocked the US" looks back at the most serious misdeeds in...
Consider the following headlines:“Morocco’s King Appoints Committee Chief to Fight Poverty and Inequality.”“Government Officials Have Manipulated Stock Prices to Hide Scandals.”“Hyatt Will Remove Small Bottles from Hotel Bathrooms.”Can you tell which one is fake?All three headlines are among 20...
From protecting whistleblowers to going undercover in Nigeria, and from narrative strategies for investigative podcasts to the threats that drive reporters from their jobs, the Centre for Investigative Journalism at Goldsmiths, University of London, tackled the highs and lows...
s a journalist and editor, my creativity was most stagnant when I felt like a fraud. This was especially true when the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Liz Balmaseda asked to join my new digital “start-up” in the legacy Palm...
During his tenure as executive editor at The Washington Post, Martin Baron ran into a persistent problem.Jeff Bezos had purchased The Post for $250 million in 2013, less than a year after Mr. Baron had taken over. Mr. Bezos,...
Two prominent departures at top universities this month have a common link: inquisitive student journalists.Stanford University’s president, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, announced on Wednesday that he would resign from his position and retract three decades-old research papers, after an independent review...
Every other semester, I teach a class called Media Criticism at Boston University’s College of Communication. (I took it over from the late great David Carr after his untimely death in 2015.) One of my in-class assignments goes something...
Most Americans favor restrictions on false information, violent content onlineBY CHRISTOPHER ST. AUBIN AND JACOB LIEDKEMost Americans say the U.S. government and technology companies should each take steps to restrict false information and extremely violent content online. However, there...
About 2.5 quintillion bytes of new data are created every day, according to IBM. Scientist David Helfand says that is equal to 5 trillion books, enough to stretch around the equator on a bookshelf over 1,600 feet high.In other...
Bryan Goldberg, the founder and CEO of US-based publisher of Bustle BDG, is a good person to ask about declining audiences for online news sites. Back in February he was forced to close Gawker, the snarky online gossip brand...
